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IN AND OUT-DOOR PLAYGAMES 

Copyright, 1923, by Albert Whitman & Co. 
Chicago, U. S. A. 


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A JUST RIGHT BOOK 
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INTRODUCTION 

This is a book of games and suggestions of 
things to do which have a permanent intellectual 
value. They are built along the lines of play 
and activities which interest children most, and 
which give them a great deal to do in the way of 
handicraft. It is told in simple language that any 
child who is able to read can understand. It 
may also be used by the mother, or the teacher, 
who desires to entertain children without a great 
outlay of material, or expenditure of time and 
money. 


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THE CONTENTS 


Giving a Gingerbread Party... 

A Game for Any Party. 

Going to the Zoo. 

The Flower Cart. 

A Picture Game for a Party... 

A Funny Thinking Game. 

A Toy Library. 

Racing Games. 

Giving a Water Party. 

A New Store for You to Make 

Racing Toys.... 

A Freight Train. 

Envelope Village. 

More Garden Games. 

A Toy Garage. 

A Swinging Monkey. 

Playroom Hunting. 



















CONTENTS (Continued) 


Some New Bean Bags.Page 73 

A Home Postoffice Box. “ 77 

The Sand Pile Supply Shop. “ 81 

Planting Sand Box Garden. “ 85 

Furniture for a Garden Playhouse. “ 89 

The Tea Party in the Woods. “ 93 

Foot Print Tag. “ 97 

Making a Clothespin Menagerie. “ 101 

Making a Toy Shop. “ 105 

Comfortable Toy Furniture. “ 109 

Making Dolls’ Umbrellas. “ 113 

Fun With Milk Bottle Tops. “ 117 

Home Picture Sewing. “ 121 


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IN AND OUT-DOOR 
PLAYGAMES 



GIVING A GINGERBREAD 

PARTY 

This will be a surprise party for 
some rainy day when you did not ex¬ 
pect to give one at all, for it will be so 
easy to get ready. All that you will 
need for it is right in the house. 

Before the party, draw the outlines 
of some of those big pictures of ani¬ 
mals in your animal book on sheets 
of brown paper. These are to be gin- 


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gerbread toys such as the children in 
some of the countries across the ocean 
love to buy in the street markets and 
play with. When your party guests 
come, they can cut out these paper 
toys and play with them. 

Cut out, also, a great big ginger¬ 
bread man. The picture in your story 
book will show you how to make him. 
He will need a round head shaped like 
a cooky, a larger round body, and legs 
and arms shaped like rolls of the cooky 
dough. Paste the parts of his body 
together and then pin the gingerbread 
man up on a sheet at the end of the 
room. Have you a toy wild animal, 
best of all a fox? If you have not, you 
can find a picture of a fox to cut out. 




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Ask the children, blindfolded, to walk 
up to the gingerbread man and try to 
see how close they can come with the 
toy animal who wants to eat him. If 
you use a picture of a fox, ask them to 
try and pin it on the sheet close to 
him. 

Ask mother for a box of gingersnaps, 
not to eat, but to play a game with. 
It is going to be a racing game. The 
smooth top of that long table in the 
living room will be just the place for 
the game. Two children, starting at 
the same time, try to see which can roll 
gingersnaps from one end of the table, 
like hoops, to the other. Little candy 
sticks may be used to roll them like 
hoop sticks. 




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Now comes the merriest game of all. 
Wrap some of those nice spicy ginger 
nuts which mother makes so well in 
colored tissue paper and fill a rather 
large paper bag with them. Tie the 
top of the bag and hang it from the 
chandelier in the middle of the room 
at a height that the children can reach. 
The children, in turn, have their eyes 
blindfolded and try to hit the bag 
with a stick and break it. When one 
does break it and the ginger nuts roll 
out on the floor, scramble to see who 
can pick up the most. 

A very good party lunch will be 
ginger cookies and milk. 





For Your Guests' Eyes 


A GAME FOR ANY PARTY 

There is always a time at the be¬ 
ginning of a party when the boys and 
girls feel a little strange because, per¬ 
haps, they are not very well acquainted 
with each other. If the fun may begin 
with some kind of game that will help 
the guests to know each other, the 
success of the party is assured. And 
here is just the right game to do that. 


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You will need to make some slight 
preparations for it beforehand. In one 
end of the room where the party is to 
be held, or better still in an adjoining 
room, hang a curtain that will be at 
the height of your shoulders. Above 
this stretch an old sheet or some stiff 
white paper, in which you cut a series 
of holes the right size, and the right 
distance apart for your guests’ eyes to 
show through. In front of this screen 
set a row of chairs. 

When the guests arrive, introduce 
them to each other, so as to be sure 
that they know their names perfectly 
if they should happen to be strangers. 
Then take them, a few at a time, and 
without the others noticing, to the 




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screen and stand them behind it, only 
their eyes showing. When the screen 
is filled, invite the others to seat them¬ 
selves in front of it, and try to guess 
the names of the hidden boys and 
girls. 

This will not be easy, and still cause 
ever so much fun. It will be a good 
game, not only for your home party, 
but for the church sociable and the 
Sunday School entertainment as well. 









GOING TO THE ZOO 


You can make a jolly visit to the 
Zoo any rainy day at home, when you 
play this game. And you will have a 
merry time making the game in the 
first place. 

It is made of the worn-out animal 
books with large colored pictures of 
wild animals, or farm-yard animals 
either. You loved these books when 
you were very little, but now you find 
them hard to look at, because the pages 
are limp and torn. 

Cut out the tiger, the elephant, the 
camel, and the other animals as care¬ 
fully as you can. Then ask mother to 

give you some pieces of the stiff cotton- 

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You Will Have a Merry Time 
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cloth known as unbleached cotton, or 
some book muslin. Book muslin is 
the stiff cloth that makes such fine, 
strong scrap books. 

Coat the back of each animal with 
photograph paste, or strong mucilage, 
and then paste it to this cloth. In 
doing this, spread old newspapers on 
your play-table to protect it. Then 
press the mounted animals and when 
they are dry, cut them out. There 
they are, strong and stiff. 

This is only the beginning of the fun, 
though. The visit to the Zoo comes 
when you ask some of the neighbor 
children to come over and make the 
visit with you. 




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Choose one child to be the man who 
has charge of the Zoo and who keeps 
all your animals in a box. One child 
is blindfolded, and this game leader 
takes one animal out of the box and 
gives it to the blindfolded child to 
hold. The child tries to tell the name 
of the animal by feeling of the camel’s 
hump, the elephant’s trunk, the horns 
of the reindeer, or the tiger’s long tail. 

When a child guesses right, the Zoo 
man puts down a mark towards his 
score, and that child who has the most 
marks at the end of a certain length of 
time wins the game. 





To Make the Flower Mans Cart 


THE FLOWER CART 

Every child who lives in the city 
knows the happy day in the spring 
when the first flower cart comes 
through the block. The snow has only 
just gone, but the spring sunshine 
makes the bricks look brighter. Hur¬ 
rah, down the street comes the flower 
peddler with a crowd of children stand¬ 
ing around wherever he stops! 


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Would you like to make the flower 
man’s cart, and so get ahead of the 
spring some bleak day of March? 

An empty cardboard box will do so 
much for your play, and this is another 
of its play helps. It will make the 
flower cart if you cover the outside 
with dark brown oatmeal paper, cut 
to fit the sides and neatly pasted on. 
Many of mother’s tin cans of food 
come now from the grocer’s with covers 
that have a rim and which come off 
without the use of a can-opener. She 
slips a knife under the rim and lifts 
the round tin cover off. Four of these 
round tin can covers make the wheels 
for the cart. 




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Lay each down on a piece of wood 
and hammer a hole through the center 
with a nail and the tack hammer. 
Fasten these wheels to the cart by put¬ 
ting brass paper fasteners through the 
hole and also through the side of the 
box, the round knob of the paper fas¬ 
tener coming on the outside. Open it 
inside the box so as to fasten the wheel 
on snugly. The wheels will turn nicely. 
A length of string will serve for drag¬ 
ging the flower cart. 

Pretty green vines should trail over 
the sides of the cart. Make paper 
kindergarten chains of narrow links of 
green paper. Then cut leaves from 
green crepe paper and paste one leaf 
to each link of the chain. This makes 




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a very real vine, and you can fill the 
bottom of the cart with it and festoon 
it over the sides. 

Those small cardboard ice cups that 
mother uses for small cakes will make 
your flower pots. Paint a few of them 
red or green. Cut out pictures of flow¬ 
ers and paste them to the inside of 
these little flower pots so that they 
stand up above the edge. Or you can 
fill the pots with sand, twist colored 
tissue paper so that it looks like a 
flower, paste the flower to the end of a 
toothpick, and then stick these bright 
blossoms in the sand. They will make 
the flower cart look very gay indeed. 


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Matching Pictures 


A PICTURE GAME FOR A PARTY 

Before the party, you can have ever 
so much fun getting ready for this pic¬ 
ture game. Cut from old magazines 
and newspapers as many well-known 
advertising illustrations as you can 
find. The colored ones in periodicals 
will be the most attractive. Mount 
each on a backing of bristol board or 
light weight cardboard, and press them 


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under a pile of books or some weight 
until they are perfectly dry. Then cut 
each picture into three parts, being 
sure to leave a rather distinguishing 
feature in each one of these parts. 

Place these parts in three piles, and 
just before the party tack the section 
of each picture that is the most easily 
distinguishable to the wall, hide one 
part somewhere in the room, and give 
the boys and girls who are your guests 
the third parts. 

The guests try to match the picture 
parts which they hold to the parts on 
the walls so as to get an idea as to 
what the missing third piece is. Then 
they start out on a hunt for the third 
part, and as soon as one player finds 




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it he may take down the piece from 
the wall and count the whole picture 
as his. 

The game is won by the player who, 
at the end of a certain time limit, has 
in his or her possession the greatest 
number of completed pictures. 









































































The Leader Starts the Game 


A FUNNY THINKING GAME 

The boys and girls sit in a row with 
the leader of the game at the head of 
the line. The leader starts the game 
by suggesting anything at all that en¬ 
ters his mind at that moment. If it 
is near Thanksgiving time, he may 
say “Nuts.” 

At once the player next to the leader 
must tell the idea that this one sug¬ 
gests to him, quickly, and no matter 
what it may be. If he should say 
“Squirrel,” the player next to him, as 

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the game goes on, may say “Cage.” 
If he says “Molasses taffy,” the next 
player will possibly say “Pan” or 
“Party.” 

In any case, there is likely to be a 
new thought started as each player 
gives the first word that enters his 
mind, and so the game goes on until 
the end of the line is reached. Then 
comes the funniest part of the game, 
for all thoughts must be traced back¬ 
wards, each player, instead of telling 
his own thought, must tell the word 
that suggested it to him. No one 
must laugh, on pain of a forfeit, until 
the end of the game, and this rule, 
together with the odd ideas that are 
likely to suggest themselves, will make 
the game end in a gale of merriment. 





A TOY LIBRARY 

An empty cardboard box placed on 
its side makes the little library build¬ 
ing. A shoe box will do very well, and 
be the right size. The supports for 
the book shelves are small empty 
spools from mother’s sewing room. 
The shelves themselves are narrow 
strips of cardboard cut to fit, in width, 
the top of the spools. They may be as 


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long as the spools can hold up with¬ 
out the shelves bending down in the 
middle. 

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Place the shelves at the back of the 
box, one upon the other, with these 
spool supports. It will be a good plan 
to glue the shelves to the spools. Then 
you can paint the shelves white or 
green or any color that would look 
well in a library as a background for 
books. 

What about the books? Oh, now 
you are going to have the fun of mak¬ 
ing them! Get together all the small 
pieces of rather stiff white and colored 
paper that you have for your toy mak¬ 
ing. The white paper is for the pages 
of the books and the colored for the 
leather covers. 




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Measure the library shelves to see 
how high your books should be to 
stand well on them. Then cut an ob¬ 
long pattern for making the books 
that will be this height and about 
square when you fold it in the middle 
to make the back of the book. Using 
this oblong for a pattern cut a colored 
cover and as many pages as you like 
for the book. Lay the cover down 
with the white pages laid evenly on 
top. Fold the book together with a 
sharp crease. Pin the pages and the 
cover together on this crease, and the 
book is done. 

But it is only what the printers call 
a dummy now. It needs, at least, 
some pictures. And if you can print, 




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put some sentences on the pages. You 
can draw the pictures, or cut very tiny 
ones out of old magazines and paste 
these in. 

Fill the library shelves with these 
books. 

Two taller spools will make the legs 
of the table where the library books 
are given out. Another strip of card¬ 
board makes the top of this table. 
An empty match box, filled with tiny 
cards that you cut to fit it, stands on 
the end of the library table for the 
catalogue. And a few flowers, cut from 
pictures, and stuck in little jars that 
you mould from clay will make the 
library pretty. 





The Little Housekeepers 


RAGING GAMES 

If it rains and you cannot have a 
merry time running races in the gar¬ 
den, never mind. Here are some rac¬ 
ing games for the house, and almost 
as much fun. 

The first game is about the dolls’ 
washing day. Of course, you have some 
tiny clothespins, two tubs and the 
dresses and bedding from the dolls’ 
beds. String two clothes lines, just 


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the same length, on opposite sides of a 
room. Set a little washtub at the 
end of each line and fill it with clothes. 
The game is to see which of the two 
little girl housekeepers will be able to 
hang out the clothes neatly, one at a 
time and side by side on the clothes 
line, fastening them with the pins; then 
take them down again. 

Another game can be played with 
the dolls’ clothes. Pack a certain num¬ 
ber neatly in two trunks or dolls’ suit¬ 
cases. These may be a hat, a set of 
underclothing, a dress, a sweater, and 
shoes and stockings. Set the two 
trunks side by side at one end of the 
room. Two little girls, each with a 
doll, sit down beside the trunks. At a 
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race, they try to see which can put all 
the clothes on the doll first and take 
her with her trunk to the other end of 
the room. 

A barrier race can be easily arranged 
in a playroom and will be enjoyed by 
boys ever so much. Lay out the race 
course first, perhaps out in the hall 
and then back again. It should have 
all sorts of obstacles, block buildings 
that will easily fall down, toys and 
toy animals that will need to be step¬ 
ped over very carefully, some games, 
and a chair turned up so that a child 

will have to crawl under it. The time 

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keeper starts a child and watches to 
see how long by the clock it takes him 
to complete the course. The one who 
covers it in the shortest time wins. 




GIVING A WATER PARTY 

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The best part about it is that you 
can give a water party ever so far away 
from the water, although, of course, it 
is ever so much better if you have a 
beach or a brook. And the next best 
part is that it is such a nice, cool 
party for the summer time. Any 
child will love it. 

When you invite your boy and girl 
friends ask them to bring their favor¬ 
ite floating toys, ducks, frogs, fish, 
water dolls, and the rest. And ask 
them, too, to wear their overalls or 
khaki middies. One can have so much 
fun in these without spoiling them. 


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A new and pleasant thing to do will 
be to have the party feast in the be¬ 
ginning, so that you may play as hard 
as yon like afterward and still be po¬ 
lite. Water ice, sand tarts and sponge 
cake made with water will be nice. 
Then comes the fun. 

The fish pond game is on the piazza 
for any children who want to play it. 
Near it are your boats if some of the 
boys want to go down to the brook or 
the beach to sail them. And mother 
has bought some squares of stiff kin¬ 
dergarten folding paper and will show 
any child who hasn’t been to kinder¬ 
garten how to fold some paper boats 
with sails. 




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Spread over the lawn are the big tin 
pans and a tin tub or two from the 
laundry all filled with water so that 
the party children can choose which 
one they would like to have for their 
own particular sea. You can change 
toys for the afternoon, a very good 
plan, for it gives each one of you a 
new floating toy with which to play in 
the water. The little paper boats will 
sail in these tin pan seas beside the 
toys, and the fun of playing with them 
will last a long time. Whenever a 
boat gets soaked and sinks, you can 
very easily make another one to take 
its place. 

There is a surprise on the piazza 
when you are through with the water 




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toys. There, set upon tables, are some 
bowls filled with water, one bowl for 
each one of the party children. And 
beside them are some very mysterious 
little envelopes. When these enve¬ 
lopes are opened, some queer, tiny 
sticks appear, but they are not sticks; 
oh, no, indeed. Drop one in your 
bowl of water, and as soon as it touches 
the water it begins to unfold into a 
lovely Japanese water flower. Put in 
the water flowers one at a time, and 
the party will be over by the time that 
the last one, with all its pretty colors, 
opens before your happy eyes. 





You Want Something New to Play 


A NEW STORE FOR YOU TO 

MAKE 

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You enjoy so very much going with 
mother when she wants to buy some¬ 
thing new for the kitchen or to help 
with the other work of the house. The 
department store where all the house¬ 
keeping helps are sold in a fairy-like 
place full of things to make housework 
easier, and many different kinds of 
foods and soaps, and cooking utensils. 

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When you come home and you want 
something new to play, why not make 
a toy department store that sells 
household helps for paper doll fam¬ 
ilies? 

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The store itself is a rather large 
cardboard box, strong and oblong in 
shape. If you like, you may paste red 
paper over the outside and when the 
paste is dry mark it in oblongs with 
white chalk, so it will look as it if had 
brick walls. Ask mother or your big 
brother to cut out some windows in 
the box. It will have to be done with 
a knife. Then you are ready to fur¬ 
nish the store. 

First of all, cut from the back pages 
of some old magazines as many small 
household helps as you can find there;, 




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different kinds of soap and soap pow¬ 
der, fancy jellies, tinned foods such as 
soups and meats and beans, and even 
boxes of candy. Arrange these in rows 
as if they were being shown on shelves 
and paste them neatly to the walls of 
your store. You will be surprised at 
the number of these pretty pictures 
that you will be able to find, even in 
one magazine, and many of them will 
be brightly colored. 

Next, look through the same mag¬ 
azines for the larger housekeeping 
helps, those magical machines that 
work with so little of mother’s effort. 
There they are, pictures of vacuum 
cleaners, carpet sweepers, oil stoves, 
washing machines, fireless cookers, all 
waiting for you to cut them out. When 




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thev are cut, mount each on some 
heavier paper so that they will be suf¬ 
fer and paste little rings made of pa¬ 
per to the backs to make them stand 
alone. Arrange these washing ma¬ 
chines and the other things about your 
box store where customers can look 
at them easily. You will need a shop¬ 
keeper cut from a magazine to be near 
them and show how they work. 

One end of vour store can be a model 

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bake shop. Use a little box for a 
counter and on it have for sale all the 
delicious cooked foods the magazines 
show with these other pictures; bread, 
rolls, salads, cakes, cookies, and pies. 

When you finish there will be no 
other toy store like yours, and all your 
friends will want to make one too. 





Which Wheel Will Keep Going Longer? 


RAGING TOYS 

Two children playing together can 
have ever so much more fun than one. 
And two racing, what can be mer¬ 
rier? So ask your best little boy or 
girl friend to meet you in the play¬ 
room, or out in your workshop in the 
garage, and make, first of all, a racing 
wheel, and after that—well, wait and 
see. 


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If you have just enjoyed a feast of 
marshmallows, the round tin cover of 
the box will be fine for making the 
wheel. A tin box in which father’s 
shoe polish comes, well washed, will 
make two wheels. Both of these round 
pieces of tin have narrow rims which 
help the wheel to balance. If you want 
a racing wheel that is more fun because 
it is difficult to keep it going; ask the 
tinsmith to cut you out a shining circle 
from one of his scraps. 

Find a rather large, round nail. The 
kind that is known as a wire nail is 
best. Lay the round piece of tin on a 
block of wood. Place the nail in its 
center, and then hammer it hard so as 

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be sure that you find the exact center 
of the tin, because on this depends 
the speed of the wheel. A good way to 
get the center will be to cut a piece of 
paper the size of the tin, fold it in 
quarters, and there will be the center 
where the folds cross. Then lay the 
paper circle on the tin one, marking 
the middle. 

Put a strong piece of twine through 
the hole in the tin and make a knot in 
the end to keep it in. Now you are 
ready for the fun. 

You and the other child start in 
the middle of the sidewalk, with your 
tin wheels at the sides. If you start 
the wheel just right, it will roll along 
at a fine rate while you run with the 




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string in your hand. The game is to 
see which wheel will keep going longer 
than the other, for when it stops 
turning you lose time getting it started 
again. 

Another jolly racing toy is a sail to 
use when you are roller skating. 

Look at the sail of your toy boat 
and then cut out a larger one, the 
same shape, from newspaper, wrap¬ 
ping paper, or light weight cloth. 
Paste narrow strips of cardboard, or 
pieces of wood to the edges to stiffen 
the sail. Or you can use an old kite 
frame, putting in new paper. Hold 
this sail high when you skate, and see 
which of the children who are sailing 
this way will reach a goal first. 





A FREIGHT TRAIN 

When the pleasant out-door days 
come there is ever so much play freight 
that you want to haul from one part 
of the garden or the woods to the 
other. There will be loads of shining 
pebbles and odd little seeds. There 
are those queer shaped twigs that you 
plan to make into people and animals. 
There are wild flowers and leaves and 
grass for your bunny. 


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Why not make your own private 
freight car for doing this hauling? 

Those strong empty boxes in the 
store room are going to be the freight 
cars. Cut pieces of black paper to fit 
the sides and the ends of these boxes 
and then paste it on neatly. Perhaps 
some kind big brother or sister will 
mark the cars with chalk to show what 
lines they belong to. 

The box that makes the engine will 
need a smoke stack, of course. If you 
can find one of those stout cardboard 
rolls in which pictures are sent through 
the mail, this will be just what you 
need. Cut it off to the right height. 
Paste black paper around it. When 
the paste has dried, glue it to the in¬ 
side of the engine, in front. 




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Tops of tin cans will make strong 
wheels. Ask mother to cut these tops 
off as neatly as she is able with the 
can-opener. With an old pair of scis¬ 
sors you can trim the edges so as to 
make them into perfect wheels. Lay 

each little tin wheel down on a block 

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of wood. Set a nail in the middle. 
Pound the nail hard with a hammer, 
and then take it out. There is a little 
round hole right in the middle of the 
tin. This is to fasten the wheel to the 
freight car. This fastening can be done 
with a large paper fastener through 

the hole and bend it out inside the 

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box. It keeps the wheel in place very 

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The cars can be coupled with pieces 
of old shoe lacings. Punch holes in 
the ends of the boxes. Tie the short 
lengths of the shoe lacing into small 
loops, one inside of the other. Tie the 
coupling through the holes in the cars 
and the train is ready to start. You 
can tie a string handle to the engine 
to draw it by up and down the walks 
and paths. 





Will Be Fun For You 


ENVELOPE VILLAGE 

Making this odd, merry, little play 
village will be fun for you and some 
of the other children. You will need 
quite a number of old, stiff envelopes, 
so father will have to help you by 
bringing these home from his office. 

The child who has a good sized 
Noah’s Ark will loan the houses, trees, 


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animals and people to you for pat¬ 
terns. Lay them down on stiff paper 
or lightweight cardboard and draw 
around them. Then cut out these pat¬ 
terns. 

Lay each pattern with the TOP on 
the folded END of an envelope, and 
draw around it. When you cut on 
this pencil line be sure not to cut off 
the fold of the envelope. Leaving this 
fold on makes the house, or whatever 
it is you are making, double, and so 
it will stand up very well by itself. 

You can cut and draw out any num¬ 
ber of things for a little make-believe 
village, but of course you will need 
some houses first, then the trees to 
stand along the edge of the streets and 




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in the front yards, and the stiff people 
that are easy to make from Noah’s 
Ark patterns. These people usually 
have no feet, so they make good stand- 
up toys. Such domestic animals as 
cows, horses and sheep will be needed 
in Envelope Village. 

Everything ought to be colored, and 
crayons or colored pencils will be the 
best for this. Red houses will be pretty 
among your green trees. Since it is a 
country village, the envelope people 
may be dressed in as many bright 
colors as you like, blue, yellow, orange, 
just as the Noah’s Ark family is 
dressed. 

If a number of children work to¬ 
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lage will be large enough to cover a 
playroom table. A few sheets of brown 
wrapping paper, with squares of green 
paper pasted on for the grassy yards 
and the village green, will make the 
land. You can add country carts made 

of empty, small boxes with bone but¬ 
tons for wheels. When spring comes 

in Envelope Village, cut out some small 
flowers from pieces of wall paper and 
paste them, bent up at the bottom to 
stand, in the gardens. Or you can 
have them growing up the fronts of 
the houses. 

This will be a pleasant little town 
to work on for a long while. 




MORE GARDEN GAMES 


If a number of your boy and girl 
friends come to your garden to play 
some sunshiny day this summer, you 
may play some games with them that 
will help them to have a very happy 
time. One of these is the Game of 
Rose Tag. 

Gut some cards or square pieces of 
paper, one for each child, and write 
on them plainly the names of flowers, 
both wild and cultivated, one name 
on each card. All the flowers must be 
different, and one card has a rose 
drawn or painted on it. 

Pin these, the flowers inside, to the 
children’s dresses and blouses. They 


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then begin questioning each other to 
try and find out what flower is theirs, 
asking such questions as, 

“Where does it grow?” 

“What color is it?” 

“How many petals has it?” 

“What kind of a leaf has it?” 

As soon as the child who has the 
rose pinned to him is discovered, he 
runs to a goal and tries to reach it 
without being tagged. A rose bush 
would be a very nice goal. Then the 
names are changed and pinned on 
other children by the game leader, and 
the game is begun over again. 

The game of Naming Birds may 
follow this one of the flowers. 

Get some scrap pictures of different 
kinds of birds and paste them to cards 







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or cut the colored ones from some of 
the rolls of crepe paper that have birds 
printed on them now for children’s 
play. Another way to make these 
cards will be to trace outlines from a 
bird book and then color them just 
like the pictures with your colored cra¬ 
yons or paints. 

The children playing the game are 
given slips of paper and pencils. The 
leader then shows them the pictures, 
one at a time, and very quickly. They 
are given sufficient time to write down 
the names but only a second or so to 
identify the birds. The leader may 
show the same picture twice if he likes, 
and the children must try to put it in 
again in the right place on the list. 
The boy or girl who has a correct list, 
or the one that is nearest to being 
correct, wins the game. 





To Play Garage Man 


A TOY GARAGE 

You have looked with a great deal 
of longing at the toy automobiles and 
their garage in the window of the toy 
shop, wishing so much that you might 
have one. It would be particularly 
nice to play garage man, when you can 
be out of doors all day long. Never 
mind if that beautiful toy does have 
to stay in the toy shop window. Here 
is the way to make your own garage. 

It is a strong, square cardboard or 
wooden box, not so big as to be hard 


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to carry about. The little boy next 
door may want to go into business 
with you, and his yard may have a 
better place for a garage than yours. 
If you use a cardboard box, paste 
brown or tan paper over the outside, 
and mark it in oblongs with a red or 
black crayon to give the effect of bricks. 
You may cover the inside walls with 
green paper, or leave them white. The 
cover of the box should have paper to 
match the bricks pasted on, after which 
you can cut out a door and windows. 
Big Brother will letter Toy Town Ga¬ 
rage on the cover above the door. 

The garage stands on one side, the 
top of the box being its front. Then 
you can put on the cover, which makes 
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If you have a small wooden box, 
you can paint it instead of pasting on 
paper. 

There is no limit to the number of 
cars that you can have, for some of 
them can be touring or carrying sup¬ 
plies or standing outside of the gar¬ 
age while the rest are inside. But you 
have no toy automobiles? Why, the 
back of any old magazine on the living 
room table is full of them. 

Cut out the advertising pictures of 
as many cars as you can find, road¬ 
sters, trucks, limousines, or touring 
cars. These will all be useful for your 
play. Paste them neatly to light 
weight cardboard. When the paste is 
dry, cut the cardboard close to the 





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edge of the picture. You will find that 
your cars are stiff and strong for a 
season’s driving at least. 

Cut narrow strips of the cardboard, 
longer than each car. Paste one of 
these to the lower edge of the back of 
each of the cars, along the wheels. 
When the paste is dry, bend, back the 
ends of the strip. This makes the 
car stand up all by itself. 

With a dozen or more of cars and 
the garage, you are ready to do busi¬ 
ness all summer in renting out auto¬ 
mobiles to paper dolls, and repairing 
their cars when they meet with an ac¬ 
cident. There will be plenty of truck¬ 
ing to do also to and from the toy 
farm in the sand pile. You will not 
have an idle minute. 





Swing To and Fro 


A SWINGING MONKEY 

Your worn out animal book has 
quite a large picture of a monkey on 
one of its pages. Cut out this mon¬ 
key for a pattern and then lay it down 
on a piece of brown paper folded dou¬ 
ble. Lay the monkey so that the top 
of his head is even with the fold in the 


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Draw around him and then cut 
neatly on the line you made, but leav¬ 
ing the fold at the top. When you 
take off the pattern you will have a 
double monkey, one with two sides 
so that he will balance himself alone. 

With black or dark brown crayon 
draw his eyes, his ears, his nose and 
mouth. If you have some bright col¬ 
ored crayons or paints, give this Jocko 
a red jacket with green braid trim¬ 
mings and brass buttons. A clever 
child will be able to make him a little 
red cap and coat of tissue paper and 
paste them on. 

Mother has some wooden meat 

skewers down in the kitchen. Ask her 

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through Jocko’s feet to fit the skewer. 
These small round holes will be in both 
sides of the little paper figure of the 
monkey. Now slip the meat skewer 
through, which makes the bar of his 
cage on which he is going to swing. 
Tie strings to the ends of the bar and 
hang him from the chandelier of the 
playroom or wherever he will have 
room to swing to and fro whenever 
the air touches him. 

A bird pattern or a pattern of a 
parrot can be used in the same way. 
Gut out these birds from stiff paper, 
and double so that they will stand 
alone. Color them brightly and then 
punch holes in their feet through which 
you put either a meat skewer, or one 




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of the straws that are used in the kin¬ 
dergarten for making chains. A small 
colored kindergarten stick may be used 
also for a swing upon which these pa¬ 
per birds stand. Using colored twine 
or worsted for hanging the swing, you 
can have a whole playroom full of birds 
that will dance to and fro if you blow 
them, and will almost sing to you of 
spring. 








More Exciting Than Any Other 


PLAYROOM HUNTING 

Before you start out with your pop 
gun or your bow and arrows, you will 
have to make the animals which you 
are going to hunt. That is what 
makes this playroom hunting so much 
more exciting than any other. And 
the best time for such a hunt is a 
stormy day indoors when you do not 
know what there is new to play. 

The animals are made of all sorts 
of bits of the woods which you can 


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have ready beforehand; pine and hem¬ 
lock cones, acorns, horse chestnuts, 
odd-shaped twigs, some dried moss, 
your jack knife and glue. Now you 
are ready for the fun! 

A pine cone makes the body of 
almost any wild animal. Choose a 
small one, glue a hemlock cone to one 
end for a head, and four acorns to the 
side for legs and you have a prickly 
porcupine—very good hunting! 

You will need a large, smoother pine 
cone for making a brown bear. A 
horse chestnut in which you cut the 
eyes, nose, and teeth, makes the bear’s 
head. Short bits of twigs glued on are 
his legs. Now cover his body and 
wind his legs with moss for his fur, 

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gluing it on. A white bear is made 
in the same way except that you use 
white cotton batting for his fur. 

Those little hemlock cones will make 
bodies for the smaller animals of the 
winter forest. A fat one, stood on 
end and having an acorn, point front, 
glued on for a head, is a brown hare. 
Paste on long brown paper ears and 
glue on twig legs. His eyes may be 
cut in the shell of the acorn. A longer 
hemlock cone with an acorn head and 
a very stiff, bushy tail made of fringed 
brown crepe paper is a squirrel. 

Fasten an acorn, point front, to a 
smoother pine cone than the one used 
for your porcupine and then give it 
sharply pointed paper ears. Make a 




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rather long, brush-like tail of reddish 
worsted and glue on slender twig legs. 
Master Fox is all ready to escape the 
hounds! 

The animals of the jungle can be 
made in the same way, with cones for 
bodies. Paste yellow paper spots on 
your leopard and stripes of the same on 
a tiger. String hemlock cones to¬ 
gether, paste green eyes on the end 

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cone, and you have a jungle serpent. 
See him wriggle! 

And when they are all finished you 
may decide not to hunt them, but to 
only have a playroom Zoo. It will be 
just as much sport. 





That Will Surprise the Children 


SOME NEW BEAN BAGS 

* 

There is hardly any plaything that 
holds so much fun as a bean bag, and 
there isn’t any reason why it should 
not be pretty as well as useful. Nearly 
all bean bags are made square, and 
the cloth used for them is striped tick¬ 
ing which is not at all beautiful. But, 
you are going to make bean bag covers 
that will surprise the children. 

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Mother bought some very bright, 
light weight oil cloth with figures of 
flowers on it to use for doilies on the 
table this summer. Ask her if she will 
not give you a few pieces of this to cut 
and sew into bean bags. Be sure that 
the pattern, a basket of flowers, comes 
in the center of the circle that you cut 
for the top. The other circle, making 
the opposite side of the bean bag, may 
be plain if you like. Sew the sides to¬ 
gether with over and over stitches and 
you have a bean bag that you can 
leave out in the garden in the rain 
with no danger of the beans sprouting 
inside it. 

There is a bundle of pieces of gay 
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left from the piazza pillows and the 
furniture covers. Here is more ma¬ 
terial for making bean bag covers. The 
chintz that has a small pattern of flow¬ 
ers can be cut into squares and sewed 
together for the covers. Che cretonne 
with large figures of birds and bou¬ 
quets can be used in a different way. 

Use plain brown linen or blue and 
green denim for the covers. Gut them 
round or square, as you like. Then 
carefully cut out a figure from the cre¬ 
tonne to decorate each side of the cover. 
A gaily colored parrot, a big red or 
pink rose, a Mother Goose figure, a 
Chinese mandarin, all these are to be 
found on even very small pieces of cre¬ 
tonne and they will make your bean 
bags different, and unusual. 




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When you have cut out the cloth 
decoration, glue it neatly to the cover 
of the bean bag before you sew the two 
sides together. Let it dry thoroughly 
before you do the sewing. 

It will be fun to put just the right 
colors together, a gay parrot on a dull 
cover so that his colors will stand out, 
a bunch of flowers on a green bean bag 
cover as if they were out in a green 
garden, the Chinaman on a yellow cot¬ 
ton bag. 

When you have finished one of 
these new bean bags you will want to 
make another to give away. They 
will make some child very happy on a 
birthday. 





All the Family Can Play 


A HOME POST OFFICE BOX 

When the first blowy, blustering 
days of the fall come, and you have to 
stay in the house, how exciting it is to 
watch for the postman! But suppose 
that you hear his whistle down the 

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block, run to the window, and then 
see him pass by on the other side of 
the street? 

Never mind. Here is a way of hav¬ 
ing as many letters and packages as 
you like at home. And the best part 
of it is that all the family can play it 
with you. 

The post office box is a strong, 
empty cardboard box such as comes 
to mother often from the department 
store. One that is a little longer than 
it is wide will look more like the post 
box out on the street corner. Paste 
green paper neatly over it, and cut a 
slit near the end of the cover through 
which to put the letters. Put the cover 
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you can cut from a newspaper or mag¬ 
azine beneath the slit to spell, U. S. 
Mail. 

This box stands on end outside the 
playroom door, in the living room, or 
wherever the familv can use it best. 

What shall you post in it? 

Post your school papers that you 
bring home with a good rating from 

the teacher. Father will be so glad to 

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see these. Post that drawing that you 
did in school, or the fine bit of hand 
work that you finish. Make a picture 
puzzle by pasting a colored picture on 
cardboard and then cutting it up. 
This will be a happy surprise for sis¬ 
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for your girl friend, or your Sunday 
School paper for your boy cousin who 
comes to visit you. 

Mother will perhaps write you a 
little note on pink or blue paper to 
tell you how pleased she is that you 
have helped her so much all day. The 
home post office box will be a splendid 
place for father to put your weekly 
allowance, ten cents in an envelope 
to spend as you like. Perhaps, too, 
there will be a package of sugar cookies 
from grandmother’s kitchen. 

Late in the afternoon, when you do 
not know what to do next, will be a 
good time for opening the box and de¬ 
livering the contents. When there is 
a birthday in your house, or it is a 
holiday, how very full the post office 
box will be! 






You Are Going to Have a Surprise 


THE SAND PILE SUPPLY SHOP 

Here is an entirely new business for 
the garden, and one that will be very 
popular with all the neighborhood 
children! You are going to have a 
supply shop of all the things that help 
i with sand pile play. 

Collect as many small wooden boxes 
as you can in which to keep all the 


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things of one kind. The very best 
ones for this are the wooden starch 
boxes. 

The fun of this shop begins the sea¬ 
son before you open it, or when you are 
away for a trip to the seashore, the 
woods, or the country, for that is when 
you will gather together your supplies 
with which to stock the shop. 

One of the boxes is for pretty bits 
of rock, the kind with sparkling bits 
of crystal and colors in it and which is 
fine for building castles in the sand. 
You always collect these bits of rock 
and never know what to do with them. 
Here is just the right use for a box of 
rocks. 




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A second box holds smooth, colored 
pebbles that you find beside running 
water. They are so well worn that 
they fit together nicely and are very 
useful indeed for laying out roads in a 
sand pile village. You may need to 
have several boxes of pebbles in your 
stock. 

Another box is for different shaped 
blocks of wood that you find outside 
the saw mill or the carpenter’s shop. 
These can be nailed together by the 
child who buys them from your store 
to make rustic furniture for the sand 
pile park or picnic ground. 

There are odds and ends to collect 
and keep in other boxes in the supply 
shop; twigs that look like little trees, 





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large nuts, bits of tin that the tin¬ 
smith cuts from his pans and plates 
and which will do very well for the 
sand pile tools, and the broken dishes 
from mother’s kitchen that are just 
right for making sand pies. 

Perhaps, when you stock this supply 
shop, you will not want to sell your 
goods for pins as you do your pin 
wheels, but would rather use them in 
your own sand pile. If you decide to 
do this, you can invite the other boys 
and girls to join you, and how much 
fun you will be able to have with such 
a large amount of material for your 
play! You can make more castles and 
towns and pies than you ever did be¬ 
fore in the sand. 






A Pretty Play Garden 


PLANTING SAND BOX GARDEN 

Even if you live in the city, you can 
play at being gardener. And even if 
your sand box is only one of mother’s 
big, oblong pans filled with white sand, 
you can have as pretty a play garden 
as you wish. 

Smooth the sand and plant the gar¬ 
den first, the path, where the vege¬ 
tables are to grow, where the flowers 


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will blossom, and where the little sum¬ 
mer house will stand. Then comes 
the fun of making all of these. 

Gut the pictures of vegetables from 
the back of a magazine to be your pat¬ 
terns. You will find cabbages, toma¬ 
toes, carrots, beets, lettuce, and al¬ 
most everything you need there, and a 
seed catalogue is even better. Lay 
these picture patterns down on some 
stiff, white paper, and draw around 
them. Then color the vegetables with 
your crayons, and cut them out. Fas¬ 
ten each one with a drop of mucilage 
to a burnt match or a toothpick, and 
let the mucilage dry. 

In the meantime you can be mak¬ 
ing the flowers. 






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You can cut out pictures of rose 
bushes and shrubs with flowers, 
mounting these in the same way on 
match ends. The prettiest flowers of 
all will be the scrap picture ones that 
the toy shop sells in sheets. Gut these 
apart and mount them. And you can 
make roses by winding fringed tissue 
paper, pink, red, yellow and white, on 
the ends of little sticks, tying it with 
worsted to match. 

Now you are ready to plant the 
garden. 

Stand the vegetables, their sticks 
deep down in the sand, in neat rows. 
The standards will not show and the 
vegetables will stand up as if they were 
growing in your sand box garden. 




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Plant the flowers where they will look 
prettiest, the taller ones at the back, 
and the very low ones in front. A 
gardener always decides what colors of 
his flowers will look best together, and 
you can think of this, too. Tall blue 
flowers will need low pink ones stand¬ 
ing near them. Your cut-out shrubs 
can have tiny blossoms of ever so many 
colors in front of them. 

The summer house is a little paper 
umbrella. Cut a circle of stiff white 
paper and paint it in stripes, red and 
white, or green and white like an awn¬ 
ing. Fold it in eight parts, open it, and 
glue it to a wooden meat skewer for a 
handle. Stand it in the garden, 
among the roses, and then surprise 
the paper dolls with your gardening. 





The Right Size for a Fairy 


FURNITURE FOR A GARDEN 

PLAYHOUSE 

You can make this furniture on a 
day when it rains, and then it will be 
ready for the sunny, out-in-the-garden 
day. For it is going to be tiny furni¬ 
ture, the right size for a fairy or a little 
doll to use. The very nicest playhouse 
in the garden is a tiny one at the foot 

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of a tree, under a rose bush, or built 
of twigs and stones. Your chairs and 
tables will just fit in one. 

Ask mother for some of the large, 
flat corks that she keeps in the kitchen 
for preserving time. If they are too 
thick, she will cut them in two for you. 
One, larger than the others, makes the 
rustic table. Its legs are four pins 
with big, round heads which make 
the ends of the table legs. Wind 
these pins tightly and neatly with 
green worsted, so that only the round 
heads show. 

Smaller corks, with smaller pins for 
legs, make the chairs. Stick a row of 
pins half way around the edge of the 
chair seat to make the back. Tie one 
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of these pins. Then weave the worsted 
in and out of the pins and back and 
forth until they are covered. Tie the 
worsted to finish the weaving, and the 
chair is done. 

If your fingers are quite skillful, you 
can wind the tiny legs of these chairs 
as you did the table legs. Then not 
even an elf would know, in using it, 
that he was sitting on pins! And the 
set of furniture will be very pretty in¬ 
deed. You can make more tables and 
chairs, using worsted of other colors, 
and have a little summer hotel some¬ 
where out in the grass to which the 
dolls can make excursions or spend a 
week-end in their new summer clothes. 

Large, stiff leaves make comfortable 
hammocks in which the dolls may 




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sleep outdoors. Find long, narrow 
ones and tie the ends carefully with 
worsted to match the garden furni¬ 
ture, as a real hammock is tied. Slung 
from stiff flower stalks, or from low 
twigs and tall grasses, these little green 
hammocks will be ever so nice for pa¬ 
per dolls. The least breath of air will 
swing them. 

Why not lay out a wee croquet 
ground with twigs bent to form wick- 

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ets, round pebbles for balls, and the 
mallets made of short, fat corks in 
which meat skewers are stuck for han¬ 
dles? And when the dolls are tired 
and warm from the game, serve them 
with tea in acorn cups on a rustic 
table. 





When You Have Gone Home 

THE TEA PARTY IN THE WOODS 

A flat old tree stump is the party 
table. Before you begin setting it, 
make a little brush of pine needles 
and brush it off as neatly as you can. 
Then look about for something pretty 
to stand in center of the table. 

There is a patch of green moss with a 
little wild flower standing up in the 


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center. That is just what you want 
for a table decoration. Lift it, moss 
and all, from the ground and set it in 
the middle of the stump. How dainty 
it looks! And when the party is over, 
you can put it back, unhurt, in the 
woodsy earth again. 

Four guests will be a nice number to 
set table for. Find four large green 
leaves and place them at equal dis¬ 
tances apart near the edge of the 
stump. These are to be the doilies. 
Now try and find four straight twigs 
and four that have branching ends so 
that they look like forks. Lay a 
straight twig to be a knife at the right 
hand side of each place, and a twig 
fork at the left hand side. 

Spoons come next. Find some acorn 
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each in which you stick a small twig. 
What nice little soup spoons they 
make! Lay a spoon beside each knife 
at the table. 

Your cups are made of rolled up 
leaves fastened together with the leaf 
stems. If you make them quite care¬ 
fully, they will stand up very well One 
cup should stand at the right of each 
place, in a line with the knife. Other 
small leaves may lie at the left of the 
places to serve as napkins. Then cut 
round pieces of bark for plates. 

Checkerberries will look very pretty 
on these plates, or wild blackberries 
or blueberries. You can make a salad 
of sour-grass leaves, cut up, with a few 
daisy centres lying among the leaves 
like little egg yolks. You can always 
make a wild apple pie in a leaf crust. 




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And who are the guests at this tea 
party in the woods? Oh, that is the 
fun of it; you never know whom to ex¬ 
pect. Perhaps, while you are busy 
preparing the party food behind some 
tree, the guests will arrive. You peep 
out, and there are a chipmunk, an 
old earth worm, a butterfly, and a 
chickadee at the table spread on the 
stump. Perhaps, when you have gone 
home, the elves will gather there. 

And there is another surprise when 
you reach home, and Mother is so busy 
in the kitchen that she has no time 
to set the table. You are able to do 
it. You know just where the doilies, 
the silver, the cups and all go. You 
learned how to set a table by setting 
the stump for a tea party in the woods! 




FOOT PRINT TAG 


This is a splendid game to play on 
that first snowy morning of the win¬ 
ter when the snow on the lawn is not 
deep enough for making a fort, but 
just right for showing foot prints. 

You will want to mark off some 
game limits, beyond which the chil¬ 
dren may not run without forfeiting 
their place in the fun. Some branches 
of evergreen stuck in the snow at the 
four corners of the lawn or garden 
where you are playing will do very 
well for this. 

One child is chosen to be It, and be¬ 
fore the game begins, he makes a path 
of foot prints over the space where the 

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children are to run, and then lays a 
twig, or a small stone in each to dis¬ 
tinguish it from the other that will 
soon cover the ground. 

The rest of the players stand at the 
limits of the ground and, at a signal 
from the leader, venture into the cen¬ 
tre. The one who is It gives chase, but 
a child is safe if he stops in one of the 
marked foot prints in the snow. It 
may happen, though, that he has to 
stand on one foot, in one foot print 
only, which makes the game harder 
and ever so much more fun. As soon 
as he steps outside, he can be tagged, 
and then he is It, and does the chasing. 

If you live near the woods, you may 
gather tiny evergreen sprays to use as 





He Makes a Path 


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foot print markers in this game, which 
will make the lawn look so pretty as 
you stand them up in the snow. If it 
snows again that night, why there are 
your markers, like little Christmas 
trees, waiting for you to make more 
foot prints in the morning and then 
play the game all over again. 




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Oh, Very Easily 


MAKING A CLOTHESPIN 
MENAGERIE 

Two new white wooden clothespins 
will make the body of an elephant! 
How can that be done? Oh, very 
easily if you are a child with fingers 
that can make things and eyes to copy 
the animals in the Zoo. 

Slip one clothespin into the other, 
pushing them tightly together, and 
then bend them at an angle so that 
they will stand on four wooden feet. 


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Perhaps you will need a drop of glue 
at the point where they join to keep 
them in place. The tall animals will 
need to be bent less than the long, 
slender ones. Your elephant should 
stand firmly on rather short legs. 

Gut a blanket for him of stiff pa¬ 
per. Paint it in bright colors, and 
glue it, folded over his back. This 
covers up the hollow where the clothes¬ 
pins join. Braid gray worsted for his 
short tail and glue it to one of the 
clothespin ends. Make a roll of gray 
flannel and glue it to the other one for 
his trunk. Two small, black eyes done 
in pencil, and two long, wide ears cut 
from the gray flannel and glue to the 
sides of his head, finish Jumbo. 

Cover an empty match box with 
gay paper, glue it to his back, and 





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Jumbo is ready to give the smaller 
dolls a ride. 

A clothespin lion will need to have 
the hollow in his back padded with a 
little cotton batting. Then cover him 
with orange colored crepe paper, glued 
on. His shaggy mane is orange 
worsted, or you can fringe some of the 
crepe paper and paste it on. It will 
be a good plan to pad the lion’s head 
with cotton batting, for he should have 
a large one. Then paste on green pa- 
Der eyes and some paper ears to match 
lis body. 

The clothespin horse needs either a 
saddle of brown paper, or a blanket on 
which you paint a border. With black 
crayons or paint, you can make his 
hoofs. His mane can be a piece of 
brown silk fringe from mother’s work 





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bag, and some braided brown worsted 
makes his tail. Bits of brown paper 
glued to the head of the clothespin are 
his ears. 

The clothespin tiger is made like the 
lion, except that his head is not so 
long, and he should have a longer tail. 
When he is covered with orange or 
yellow paper, paste black paper stripes 
around his body and see how fierce 
he will look! 

There are many other clothespin ani¬ 
mals waiting for your play, spotted 
leopards, woolly sheep that you make 
by covering the clothespins with cot¬ 
ton batting, and camels with humps 
made of crinkled tan paper and braid¬ 
ed tan worsted tails. 

So get out your glue pot, scissors, 
paper and go to work. 





You Will Have Many Toys 


MAKING A TOY SHOP 

A strong, square hat box makes the 
toy shop itself. Cover it with red or 
green crepe paper, pasted on neatly. 
The cover makes the roof of the shop, 
and you can glue an empty match 
box to this for the chimney. Cut large 
windows and doors in the box itself. 
When the cover is on, the dolls can 
look in the toy shop windows or go in 
through the doors to buy their toys. 

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If you want to make more room in 
which to play with the toy shop, just 
take off the cover. 

During the holidays the magazines 
that come to your house are full of 
bright, small advertisements of toys 
that are the right size for cutting out 
and using for your toy shop posters. 
Paste these toy posters to the inside 
walls of the shop and use a few of the 
nicest colored ones on the outside of 
the shop to attract doll buyers. 

An empty spool box makes the 
counter and you can glue small empty 
boxes on their covers inside the win- 
do ws, j ust below the sills on which to dis¬ 
play your stock of toys. These toy shop 
windows are the main part of the shop. 




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If you are making this shop at the 
holidays cut out colored Christmas 
wreaths from magazines and paste 
them over the windows and doors. 
A paper Santa Claus, easy to find on 
a roll of crepe paper or a holiday card, 
his back stiffened with cardboard, 
makes the toy man. 

There is almost no toy that you can 
not make for your shop. Cut circles 
of stiff paper, fold them through the 
center, paste pictures of horses to them 
and you have a whole string of hobby 
horses. Very small dolls can be cut 
from fashion papers and folded to sit 
in the windows of this toy shop. Glue 
two empty match boxes together, one 
slipped inside of the other. Glue on 




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peppermint drops for wheels and a 

cardboard handle—there is a doll’s 

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buggy! Games can be made by stif¬ 
fening bright colored pictures, cutting 
them up into puzzle pieces, and put¬ 
ting them in small boxes. Filled 
Christmas stockings will be good sel¬ 
lers. Use your doll’s stockings, or cut 
and sew a few pairs from an old silk 
glove. The fingers of gloves, shaped 
a bit, make fine dolls’ stockings. Fill 
these little stockings with marbles for 
balls, very small candles, and cut out 
colored pictures of toys to stick in the 
top. These will look well hung in the 
window. 

And you will have many small toys 
of your own that can be used to stock 
this jolly little shop. 






Why Not Play That? 


COMFORTABLE TOY 
FURNITURE 

The cardboard and heavy paper fur¬ 
niture that you make for the dolls’ 
house is the very best for dolls, but is 
it comfortable? Why not play that 
you are an upholsterer some day this 
winter, and have ever so much fun as 
well? 

The seats of the paper sofa and the 
chairs can be made bright and softly 


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cushioned with bits of colored wool. 
Thread a heavy needle with green, 
crimson, or blue wool and then sew up 
and down through the edges of the 
chair seat, setting the point of the 

needle in a row of holes that you make 

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at the edges. Sew from front to back 
and from right to left, weaving the wool 
in and out if you can, or just placing 
the long stitches on top of one another. 
This makes a cushioned seat. 

Another way to upholster your dolls’ 
furniture is to cut and glue to the chair 
seat a layer of cotton batting. Over 
this sew or paste at the edges a piece of 
bright silk or figured chintz in a small 
pattern. You can cushion the chair 




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back in the same way. This makes 
a very nice finish for the grandmother 
dolls’ rocking chair. 

Soft leather is being used so much 
now for pillows or the collars and cuffs 
of your cloth dresses that Mother may 
have some scraps to give you for your 
play. Cut this to fit the seats of the 
father doll’s library set, the chairs and 
his couch. Glue it neatly in place and 
see how much it adds to his room in the 
dolls’ house. 

White crepe paper lasts very well for 
making bed room linen for the home¬ 
made cardboard furniture. Cut white 
tissue paper in quite fine shreds and 
stuff a white crepe paper pillow with it. 
Shred some more and stuff a blue and 
white checked or striped paper mat- 





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tress for dolls. The sheets are of the 
white crepe paper and the bedspread 
of the same, but the spread is ruffled 
all around the edge. The white lace 
paper from a box of soap or a candy 
box may be cut to make pillow shams. 

Porch pillows and cushions for a 
window seat in a dolls’ house are easily 
made. Gut squares of bright crepe 
paper, put a little cotton between, and 
stitch them together a little way from 
the edge and with long stitches. Then 
ruffle the edges, pulling them out in 
frills with your fingers. The doll who 
is going to college will need many of 
these couch cushions, and you can 
make and paste on college pennants if 
you like. 




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She Would Like to Pretend 

MAKING DOLLS’ UMBRELLAS 

Your doll needs ever so many things 
that cannot be bought at the toy shop. 
And among these is an umbrella to 
use when the showers of April fall and 
she would like to pretend that she was 
going out in the rain. 

When you look at your own um¬ 
brella with its ribs and joints you 
feel that you can /never, never make 
one. But you can. It does not have 
to open and close like yours. It is so 


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simple to make that your doll can 
have a new one every rainy day. 

Fairly stiff black paper is the best 
to use. Or you may use dark green, 
red, or blue paper. Any of these will 
match a doll s rain coat. Cut a 
straight, long, narrow strip of the 
paper. This is for making the han¬ 
dle. Roll it between your fingers into 
a straight lamp lighter. If you have 
trouble in twisting one of these old- 
fashioned lamp lighters, any grown¬ 
up person in the family will show you 
how to start it. 

A small saucer will be the pattern 
for the top of the umbrella. Lay it 
down on your paper and draw around 
the edge with a pencil. Cut out this 
center. Fold it in quarters which look 
like pieces of pie, the folds on the out- 




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side. W here the folds meet is the mid¬ 
dle of the paper. Draw some straight 
lines from the middle to the edge of 
the paper making them between the 
folds. Fold on these lines. Now the 
umbrella has eight folds. 

Now open out the little umbrella, 
letting the creases where you folded 
the paper show like the folds in a real 
umbrella. With a drop of glue or 
some strong paste fasten one end of 
the handle to the center of the um¬ 
brella top inside. Then cut off the 
other end of the handle the right length 
for your doll’s arm, and it is done. 

After you have learned how to make 
these little umbrellas you can make 
dolls’ sunshades in just the same way. 
They may match the dolls’ summer 
dresses, for you will make them of 
tissue paper or crepe paper. 





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If you make a tissue paper sun¬ 
shade, roll a white handle and use the 
same white paper for the top, folding 
it as you did the rain umbrella. Then 
cut a tissue paper covering, pink, yel¬ 
low, blue, or white, and a little larger 
than the top. Fasten this to the top 
with drops of mucilage and then fringe 
the edge that hangs over the white 
paper lining. 

A doll s sunshade made of crepe pa¬ 
per does not need a lining. Make the 
handle of white paper and paste a 
strip of crepe paper over it. Cut a 
circle of the crepe paper for the top. 
It is so stiff that you do not need to 
fold it. But you can pull out the edge 
of the paper to make ruffle which will 
be very pretty. 




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One of the Nicest Uses 

FUN WITH MILK BOTTLE TOPS 

Nearly all the milkmen cover their 
bottles now with round, crinkled cov¬ 
ers that are made of very stiff paper. 
These tops come off neatly when the 

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wire holding them is pried off, leaving 
them all ready for your play. There 
are many things that a child can do 
with them, so save every milk bottle 
top that comes to the kitchen. 

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One of the nicest uses for them is the 
making of small flower pots. Paste a 
circle of green paper to the bottom to 
cover up the printing there is apt to be 
on it, and then paint the crinkly edges 
green with your water color paints. 
When the paint is dried, line the inside 
of this tiny flower pot with oiled paper. 

You can carry one or two of these 
pots to the woods in the early spring 
days and bring home a violet, a he- 
patica, or a little new fern in each set 
carefully in its own earth. The woods 
plant will live for quite a while, and 
when the blossom is gone you can set 
it out in the home garden. 

Sister will love to make Dolly a 
spring hat from one of the milk bottle 




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tops. Coat the lettered part with paste 
and then lay it on a circle of colored 
crepe paper. When the paste is dry, 

turn the hat over and fold down the 

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crepe paper in the crinkled rim that 
the bottle top makes. A bow of crepe 
paper, or a wreath of little flowers, 
finishes the hat which will fit the head 
of almost any doll, because the rim 
can be bent in or out to shape it. 

And how about making one of these 
playful bottle tops into a May basket, 
or a dolls’ market basket? All you 
need to do is to paint it the color you 
like, or cover it with tissue paper as you 
did the doll’s hat, glue on a handle of 
braided crepe paper, and the May 
basket is done. It is just large enough 




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to hold one or two pink and white 
peppermint creams and a very small 
bouquet. 

The dolls’ market basket may be 
made without coloring the top of the 
milk bottle. Paste a circle of brown 
paper over the lettering, and tie on a 
handle made of string. You can fill 
this small basket with such play 
market supplies as cheeses, brown 
pebble potatoes, little green apples, 
cherries, blueberries, and sand tarts 
made in tiny shells. 




HOME PICTURE SEWING 


One of the very pleasantest of your 
pleasant kindergarten days was the 
one when you did picture sewing with 
colored worsted on a thick card in 
which holes were punched. You never 
had this fun after you went to primary 
school, but you can enjoy it at home. 
What is better, you will be able to 
make the cards for sewing the pictures 
yourself. 

Select some large, plain picture out¬ 
lines. An apple, a pumpkin, a leaf, 
a bird or animal from the baby’s alpha¬ 
bet book will be good pictures to use. 
Lay the picture up against the window 

pane when the light is brightest, and 

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and over it lay some thin white paper. 
Using a well sharpened pencil, draw 
neatly all around the outside of the 
picture. This will give you a clear 
outline of the picture on the white 
paper. 

Now there is something else to do. 
Fold some old, soft cloth such as pieces 
of an old blanket, and lay it on a lap 
board. Cut some squares of card¬ 
board, or ask mother to get you a 
package of plain white cards at the 
stationer’s. They cost very little. 
Lay a card down on the pad you made 
by folding the cloth. Lay the picture 
pattern down on the card. Then, 
using a very coarse pin with a head, 
punch holes in the card rather near 




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together on the lines of the picture. 
When you make holes all the way 
around the picture, lift up the paper, 
and there is the picture outline 
punched on the card. 

Mother and big sister are doing so 
much knitting and embroidery with 
worsted now that they will have ever 
so many ends of bright wool with which 
you can sew these pictures. Use a 
worsted needle with a blunt point and 
a large eye. If you have forgotten how 
to do the kindergarten picture sewing, 
this is the way. Sew up and down 
through the holes on one side of the 
card along the outline. Then turn 
the card over and sew up and down all 
the way back again, putting your 




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125 


needle in the holes that you did not 
sew through before. This makes a 
solid line of color all the way about 
the picture. 

These worsted pictures will be fun 
to sew when you are not able to go 
out and play, and they will make a 
pretty border for the playroom, fas¬ 
tened just below the picture mould¬ 
ing. You can sew a set of pictures of 
Autumn leaves, in all the bright fall 
colors. You can sew some pictures 
of fruits or vegetables in the colors 
that you see them in the market or in 
the farmer’s barn. And how jolly if 
you are able to sew a Zoo full of ani¬ 
mals, a yellow lion and a tiger, a gray 
elephant, a striped zebra, and all the 




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others! They will be easy to do if 
only you can find some pictures to 
trace. 



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